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NVIDIA researcher Jean-Francois Puget discusses evaluating agent skills and distinguishing real improvements from benchmark overfitting. Drawing on Kaggle competitions, he emphasizes validation that separates development feedback from final evaluation. The episode also considers coding agents, multi-agent software development, model-release claims and his team’s approach to the ARC-AGI competition. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush
Published Jul 13, 2026 · 59 min
Siddhant Pardeshi describes autonomous software-development systems that combine knowledge graphs and vector search to navigate large repositories. The conversation examines context engineering, agent orchestration, model-specific prompting and persistent feedback. It also considers how evaluation should reflect security, maintainability and acceptance of the resulting software.
Hosted by Sam Charrington
Published Mar 10, 2026
Alexandre Pesant discusses the capabilities and limits of coding agents and development through natural-language intent. Topics include context engineering, changes between workflow-based and agentic architectures, scaling challenges, evaluations and interface design. The conversation examines how model improvements influence practical software-development tools.
Hosted by Sam Charrington
Published Oct 22, 2025
Michael Hines discusses the development of NEURON and its use in simulating biophysically detailed cells and networks.
Published Jul 20, 2024 · 1 h 27 min
Renato Alves, Senior Bioinformatics Community Manager at EMBL, discusses how open-source practices, accessible tools and research communities support reproducible life-science research. The conversation considers collaboration between experimental scientists and developers, documentation, mentoring and support roles. Episode 4 of The Knowledge Catalyst. Official episode page, transcript and resources: https://www.embl.org/about/info/open-science/renato-alves-open-source-practices-and-community-building-power-reproducible-and-collaborative-science/